Entering the space between reality and reality, Xu Tong took a quick look and saw the old Taoist squatting at the door.
Co-authored by the eldest princess, it was a big holiday during this period. Tiantian and his wife took some time off from their busy schedule, leaving the old man on duty alone.
"Huh??"
When the old man saw Xu Tong, he immediately frowned. He walked up to Xu Tong and raised his nose. He couldn't help but take two steps away with disgust on his face: "Master, why do you smell so bad?"
"rancid??"
Xu Tong raised his arm and sniffed a few times, but he didn't smell anything.
"Well, it's really a bit bad!"
The old Taoist pinched his nose, and after carefully examining Xu Tong's face again, he suddenly looked a little embarrassed: "Hey, something's wrong, leave quickly!"
The old Taoist said that he didn't care so much, and called Xu Tong to go inside, and at the same time quickly distanced himself from Xu Tong.
Xu Tong was startled by Lao Dao's actions. He didn't know what was wrong with him that made Lao Dao so nervous.
"Old gentlemen, come out quickly, something happened to the young master."
As soon as he entered the door, the old man shouted at the top of his lungs.
Master and Mr. Mei were still enjoying tea. When they heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other and immediately stood up to greet him.
The old Taoist led Xu Tong straight to the master and Mr. Mei. Before Xu Tong could come and say hello to the master and Mei Xian, he suddenly looked up and saw the master's face turned sinister, and his heart suddenly skipped a beat.
"What's wrong??"
The master and mistress, as well as the eldest princess and the goddess of heaven also heard the commotion. After the group came, they fell silent when they saw Xu Tong's face.
Xu Tong's scalp felt numb now.
This is just like an old Chinese medicine doctor checking your pulse. His smiling face suddenly becomes silent and his brows furrow, which would make anyone else's heart skip a beat.
"Master, why are you looking at me like this? Is there something wrong with my face??"
Xu Tong touched his face and felt that his skin was rough, but there was nothing abnormal about it.
"Brother, you smell so bad!"
As soon as the goddess came out, she pinched her nose and hid away, saying, "I have seen someone who looks just like you now."
Xu Tong heard this and asked: "What then?"
"Then he died and buried himself in a pit of fire until no bones were left."
The goddess said seriously.
The corners of Xu Tong's mouth twitched and he smiled bitterly: "You mean, I'm going to die too??"
Everyone immediately looked at each other after hearing this, and finally in silence, Master Xue Gui said with a solemn face: "You are almost exhausted!"
"ah??"
Xu Tong was shocked when he heard this. It wasn't that he was afraid of death, but that he couldn't figure out what it meant that he was about to run out of energy??
No matter how bad I am, I am still a land fairy. If I haven’t figured out how gods play this trick, I am about to burp??
This is a bit unreasonable.
What's more, the food tastes delicious and I feel in good health. When I came here just now, I ate a large table of food, and it didn't look like there was anything wrong.
Seeing Xu Tong's face full of questions, the eldest princess had already walked to him. After smelling Xu Tong's smell, she immediately frowned: "It's sour!"
“What’s sour??”
"My whole body is sore." The eldest princess pinched and wrinkled her nose: "What did you do, or where did you go?"
Xu Tong scratched his head. Where else could it be that he shouldn't have gone? Wasn't it the cave sky?
"I came back today just to tell you that I was pulled into a cave by a woman named Yinshan Old Mother, and then came out."
Hearing Xu Tong's words, everyone frowned.
The eldest princess on the side had a cold light in her eyes, and said angrily: "You are so brave, you dare to break into any place without knowing the details."
After saying that, he stretched out his hand, took Xu Tong's arm and walked back. The old Taoist on the side saw this and hurriedly said: "I'm going to get the wine, you guys are ready."
As the old Taoist said this, he turned around and ran towards the wine cellar in the back mountain.
The eldest princess took Xu Tong to the yard where the master usually fished, and said angrily: "Quick, there is no time to explain, take off!"
"This... is too sudden."
Xu Tong stretched out his hand and wanted to take it off, but when he looked back, he found that the master and the others were staring at it. The master's wife and the goddess were also beside them.
Even though Xu Tong was thick-skinned, he felt a little embarrassed at this moment.
"Hurry up, you'll stink in a little while."
Seeing that Xu Tong was still coquettish, the eldest princess became a little anxious and stretched out her hand to tear off Xu Tong's clothes.
Xu Tong's expression changed, and he hurriedly avoided the eldest princess's claws, summoned Fortune, and turned into an opaque screen in front of him: "I will do it myself! Oops, you grabbed the wrong place!!"
The eldest princess obviously couldn't care so much anymore, and stretched out her hands to scratch Xu Tong. At this time, the old Taoist also came, holding a wine vat that was taller than a person and placed it in the yard.
This was an old wine brewed by the Mei family. After the eldest princess pulled off the last fig leaf from Xu Tong, she raised her hand and threw it into the wine vat for him.
Then he threw all the clothes Xu Tong had just worn into a brazier, and the old man called out a flame and lit the brazier.
Xu Tong poked his head out of the wine jar and was about to speak when his pupils suddenly tightened and he saw that the old Taoist took out a hatchet from nowhere and cut off the eldest princess's hands with one blow.
Now Xu Tong realized the seriousness of the matter.
I saw the old Taoist use a long chopstick to throw the eldest princess's arm into the brazier, and also took out a jar of strong wine and sprinkled it on the eldest princess's broken arm.
"what on earth is it?"
Xu Tong raised his head and looked at the master, but the master and others remained sullen and silent. The master's wife and Mr. Mei walked to the wine jar, and saw Mei Xian open her mouth and spat out a ball of bright green light that covered the wine jar.
"Bear it!"
The old Taoist made a seal with his fingers, and a fire talisman fell on the wine vat, and suddenly the whole wine vat began to boil.
Xu Tong immediately felt a burning pain all over his body, and then a scene appeared that made his scalp feel numb.
Under his skin, black worms oozed out.
After these bugs emerged from under the skin, they began to twist their bodies. The number was increasing, and even Xu Tong's psychological quality began to feel uncomfortable.
As soon as these bugs encountered strong alcohol, they jumped out of the wine vat and climbed on the green light vomited by Mei Lao.
After these bugs came into contact with the light mask spit out by Mei Lao, they began to rot rapidly. Soon the bug corpses began to crack, and black mold burst out like popcorn to cover it.
"These molds!!"
Xu Tong looked at the thick layer of black mold in front of him with a horrified look in his eyes. These molds were exactly what had contaminated his body in the cave.
After I left the cave, I thought the molds had disappeared, but I didn't expect that they turned into bugs and wormed their way into my body, and I didn't notice at all.
"I'll do the rest."
Seeing the mold growing more and more, the master's wife stepped forward, her eyes gradually turned red, and then a manic and twisted aura emanated from the master's wife. She opened her arms, and a gash gradually opened in the master's palm.
In the blink of an eye, it turned into a bloody mouth, sticking out its tongue greedily, and began to devour the blackened mold.
But after a while, all these molds were eaten up by the huge mouth in the palm of the master's wife.
Seeing that all the mold had been removed, the mistress covered her little mouth and burped, and then said angrily to Xu Tong: "You kid, you really don't make people worry."
"Master Wife, what am I..."
"Five declines of heaven and man!" Before the master's wife could explain, the master Xue Gui walked up to him and said.
The so-called five declines of heaven and man are the precursors that will appear when the immortal energy is almost exhausted.
The first is that the body is smelly and filthy, the second is that the clothes are stained with dust, the third is that the flowers on the head are wilting, the fourth is that the armpits sweat, and the fifth is that I am unhappy.
This is the five declines of heaven and man.
This statement is a common way of expression. When the five degenerations of heaven and man actually occur, it will be even more terrifying than these.
These molds on Xu Tong's body are only manifestations in the early stage. In the mid-term, his luck will suddenly collapse overnight, and then he will become confused and even go crazy uncontrollably. The best result in the later stage is sudden death or active retreat.
Otherwise, it is very likely that he will completely degenerate and become a monster that is neither human nor ghost.
"You said before that you entered a cave. You don't enter a place like this casually. People often say that caves are blessed places, but some caves are not blessed places, but evil caves."
The master looked a bit remorseful: "It's also our fault that we didn't warn you as soon as possible. We didn't expect that you would encounter those evil gods so soon."
Xu Tong was lying in the wine vat and saw his master Xue Gui looking remorseful, and he suddenly felt guilty.
"Grandpa Shi, I was too reckless this time."
Xue Gui waved his hand: "The matter has come to this, and there is no point in being pretentious. Let's find a way to save you first. Once the five declines of heaven and man appear, it is difficult to reverse them. This method can only slow down the speed of your decline."
Everyone wants to live. In order to live longer, those top rich people take a supplement worth millions every day, or even undergo a heart transplant to achieve their goal of longevity.
This is true for humans, and it is true for gods as well.
But death is fair, and no one can avoid it when it comes, and gods are no exception. Once the five declines of heaven and man occur, even gods and Buddhas cannot reverse it.
The reason why those gods of death are called gods of death is precisely because they avoid the five degenerations of heaven and man through death.
"So, wouldn't I be dead??"
Xu Tong blinked, not expecting that he would die in such an inexplicable way.
"That's not necessarily the case. You have been cursed by an evil god, which may not necessarily mean that you have actually entered a state of decline. As long as you catch this evil god, you will naturally have a chance to reverse it."
After Xue Gui said this, he asked Xu Tong to tell everything he saw and heard after entering the cave.
Although the master was only a great master before his death, his experience and vision will certainly be good if he can serve as a servant under the Ghost Emperor Du Ziren after his death.
What's more, there are the knowledgeable Mr. Mei and his cheap wife beside him.
After everyone heard what Xu Tong told about the situation, several people gathered in a circle to discuss it like an expert consultation.
Seeing such a scene, Xu Tong felt warm in his heart at this moment, with an unprecedented sense of happiness.
He raised his head and rested it on the edge of the wine vat. A smile gradually appeared on his face: "This is the feeling of home..."